'A third world . . . not a bridge'

Mason Bates, the Richmond-bred composer and recently named co-director of a new-music initiative at the Chicago Symphony, joins Leonard Slatkin and the Pittsburgh Symphony on Feb. 19 and 20 to perform his "Liquid Interface." In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Andrew Druckenbrod, Bates discusses re-creating orchestral music by incorporating electronic sound:

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